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March 18, 1944, Suma's ship, the "Hokuriku Maru," sank in the Bashi Channel[*5].
  
 
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* Nureki, Chimuo. <i>The Artists of Kitan Club.</i> Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004. Print.
 
* Nureki, Chimuo. <i>The Artists of Kitan Club.</i> Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004. Print.
 
* Akio, Fuji, Masami Akita, and Chimuo Nureki. <i>Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1.</i> Tokyo: Jiyukokuminsha, 1996. Print.
 
* Akio, Fuji, Masami Akita, and Chimuo Nureki. <i>Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1.</i> Tokyo: Jiyukokuminsha, 1996. Print.
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* Shimokawa, Koushi <i>The Paradise Trade - A History of the Essential Nature of Post War Accounts.</i> Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1998. Print.
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==

Revision as of 23:53, 19 April 2010

Toshiyuki Suma

Suma (須磨) family name, Toshiyuki (利之) first name, (1920- 1992)

Activities

Painter/illustrator, rope artist, writer and editor. Suma did editorial work in early SM magazines like "Kitan Club," "Uramado," "SM Collector," "Abu-Hunter" and "SM Kitan." He played an important role in the formation of post-war SM culture and left behind first-class work as a writer and rope artist.

Alternate Name(s)

須磨利之(Japanese), Reiko Kita, Kou Minomura, Eijiro Takenaka[1], etc. (See below)

Kitan Club aliases[2]

Reiko Kita、壬生すみ子(writer)、藤安節子(writer)、竹中えいじろ(artist)、今幾久造(artist)、花山剣作(writer)、鬼山絢作(consultant, writer)、赤坂剛(writer)、秋山ルミ子(writer)、三村幾夫(writer)、染田玄(writer). Art signed as "MINOMURA," "晃," "KEN," "弱" and "えいじろ."

Fuzoku Soushi aliases

Uramado aliases

SM magazine aliases

(Incomplete)

Biography

Since it is believed that Suma's autobiographies include a few invented anecdotes, the biographical data below could contain inaccuracies. Therefore, the following biography may be corrected in the future.

1920, Suma was born in Kyoto to a family who ran a printing business out of their home[3].

ca1932, As a child, he encountered Seiu Itou's torment art in the book "Documentation on Abnormal Customs, " which he found in his grandfather's book collection[4].

1930s, Suma left the Kyoto School of Fine Arts at midterm and became the live-in apprentice to the Japanese painter Baisen Kobayashi[5].

May 1939, Volunteered for the Navy in Maizuru, Kyoto[6].

March 18, 1944, Suma's ship, the "Hokuriku Maru," sank in the Bashi Channel[*5].

Selected Works

Notes

  1. Painted in the style of Eitaro Takenaka. Years later, Suma was visited by Eitaro Takenaka's son, the critic Tsutomu Takenaka.
  2. Chimuo Nureki, The Artists of Kitan Club (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004)
  3. After his father's death, Suma's uncle, Kanbee Suma, became the head of the family.
  4. Fuji Akio, Masami Akita, Chimuo Nureki, Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1 (Jiyukokuminsha, 1996)
  5. In a place called the Saganosho Babachou Tenryuji in the Ukyo ward of Kyoto.
  6. Koushi Shimokawa, The Paradise Trade - A History of the Essential Nature of Post War Accounts (Chikuma Shobo, 1998)


References

  • Nureki, Chimuo. The Artists of Kitan Club. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004. Print.
  • Akio, Fuji, Masami Akita, and Chimuo Nureki. Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1. Tokyo: Jiyukokuminsha, 1996. Print.
  • Shimokawa, Koushi The Paradise Trade - A History of the Essential Nature of Post War Accounts. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1998. Print.

External Links